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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1887-09-11
MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEAR.
ANCE.

On the 9Th of last January Isaac
N. Woodhouse a well-known min
ing proprietor left the town OF Haw-
thorne on a blackboard bound for
Bishop Creek. Since that time he
has not been heard from. He left
Hawthorne on Saturday and was
seen passing Techs marsh on Sun
day, by a number of men who were
collecting borax. He also passed
the house of a man named Spratt,
who asked him to stay over night,
but he drove on saying that he
wished to reach some springs seven
miles beyond. On Tuesday some
men hunting lost horses found
signs Of his Having built fire and
stopped over night, and they fol-
lowed his trail sixteen miles. almost
up to a Mexican wood-camp.
Some time after Mr.. Spratt was
in Belleville, and heard the disap-
pearance of Mr.. Woodhouse talked
Of. He reported what he had seen
of him, but no action whatever was
taken, the people generally thinking
that he had gone into the mountains
to prospect and would remain there
as long as the snow lasted, which
would afford him water.
His brother, not hearing from
him as was agreed on between them,
from Bishop Greek, became very
uneasy and wrote to the authorities
OF Esmerelda county, among them
the District Attorney, but they took
no notice whatever of the matter
not even replying to the letters
Since that time he has been cor
responding with all of the missing
mans friends in Hawthorne and il
Bishop Greek, but without elicitint
any further information.
Several persons have gone out a
different times to look for him
among them Mr.. Spratt and q
Lyford, who has taken great in
terest in the matter. but SO far with
out results. In a letter received b.
John Woodhouse, who resides i
this city, last Monday, MIR. Lyfor
saws he has made earnest efforts
find the horse of the murdere
man, as he is now believed to hav
been foully dealt with, but SO ia
without success. He has offere
a reward to the Indians for tt
horse, and hopes yet to get him an
perhaps definite clew to h
friends fate.
In the mean time the friends an
associates of Mr.. Woodhouse in N
yada are organizing for thoroue
search of the country, though 1t
one almost without hope OF fndiI
him alive, for with his great e
nerience in the mountains it is n
to be supposed that he would 7
main out so long time If u
harmed.
Mr.. Woodhouse was native
Ohio, Az years of age, he is about d
feet eight inches in hight, dark eye
and wore full beard. He serv
through the last war in the Six
Ohio Battery. He was angular
industrious and temperate, and =
IN trouble nor in debt. All W
49, h;vv, arm aaddeu0d by his MI
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-06-29
A New Dependent Pension Bill.

1t is announced at the headquarters of
the Grand Army that new dependent
pension bill is being prepared under the
direction of General Fairchild. 1t was
drafted by the National Pension Commit
tee of the Grand Army, and will be sent to
all Grand Army Posts with the expectation
that they will commend it to the favorable
attention of the next Congress. The main
provisions of the bill differ but little from
the last bill that was vetoed by Cleveland,
and it could scarcely expect better treat
ment from his hands. But it is well TO be
considering the subject, and the neglect OF
the Democratic party in Congress, and
Clevelauds brutal indifference to the claims
of the Union soldier, do not relieve others
of their responsibility in the matter. The
old comrades of the Grand Army will keep
on doing their duty to the living and the
dead, whether they are supported by a Cop
perhead President and Copperhead party
or not. The day will come when the
nation will do justice to the Union soldier,
and it is we'll TO keep working forward
with that end In view.-Des Monies Regis
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-06-29

material is of black velvet or satin, the two
pieces measuring about ten inches by
eight. The upper corners are slightly
rounded and the lower ones sloped until
the lower edge measures only five inches
across. The velvet is then embroidered
with silk and fine chenille-the leaves and
stems with green and brown silks, in satin
overcast and feather stitch; the flowers
with loops of bright colored chenille. The
bag is then lined. the parts sewed together,
and the upper part plated or shirred, and
fastened into the steel clasp on the outside
of the old bag.
MUSIC PORTFOLIO.
A handsome present to a lady of musical
tendencies Is made as follows: Cut
four pieces of cardboard fifteen by
eleven inches square. Cover two of
them with silesia for the inside.
The outside covering is of dark red
satin, cloth or velvet, embroidered in chain
and feather stitch, the pattern representing
the flower known as the bachelors button
or ragged sailor. Colors used for working
should be shaded blue and pink for the
flowers, and the olive shade for the vine
and leaves. When the embroidery is fin
ished, stretch over the cardboard. and then
overland an inside and outside piece to-
gether. Finish the edge all round with O
cord, and make handles of the same. The
hinges are made of ribbon sewed across
and tied IN bows afterward; or cord and
tassels can take the place of ribbon and be
far more effective.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-06-29
AS REPUBLICANS PREDICTED.
from the Iowa State Register. !

From the Iowa state Register.
- During the campaign cf 1884 Repub-
FIicans freely predicted that if Mr.. Cleve-
land were elected he would be found, be-
fore his term was over, trucking to the
South and directing the policy of his adj
ministration in a way that would tend to
elorify the enemies and discourage the
friends of the Union. 1t was openly pre-
dicted and as positively denied that inside
of four years the Government in its most
important positions would be turned over
to the men who tried to destroy it. 1t was
predicted that if Mr.. Cleveland didn't actu-
ally attempt to undo the work Of the war
by direct means, he would by indirect
means, and that the effect of his admins
tration would be to teach that the North
was wrong and the South right in the war
of the rebellion. This was also strenuously
denied, and all of the predictions of the
sort were denounced as idle talk, born of
excited imagination, and intended only FOR
campaign purposes.
=. The history of the past two years shows
fliat the Republican predictions were true,
and in every instance have been more than
fulfilled. Clevelands order surrendering
the rebel flags is the contamination and
fulfillment Of these prophecies. Never
have effects followed causes more surely
than fulhllment has followed the Repub-
lican prophecies made before Cleveland's
election.
He signalized the beginning of his ad-
ministration be trucking to the South, and
10 the meanest, most despicable element OF
the South, by half-masting the Union flag
in honor of Jake Thompson, the man who
plotted the assassination OF Lincoln,
planned to introduce pestilence and con-
taQion into every Northern city-this man
who represented all that was fendish IN
human nature and devilish in human
vickedness, who did not dare stay in The
~country that he had disgraced by his birth
This thing was held up to honor and
praise, and the Union flag was hung al
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-06-29

SILVER has been discovered five miles
from Tuscola, ILL.,, reads an exchange. We
lost an old vest with several three cent
pieces near Tuscola about year ago. and
this is the first intimation we have had of
its having been found.-Chicdgo Ledger.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-06-29
Cleyeland's DAYS Are Numbered.

If the South is so delighted with Mr..
Cleveland, it would be great pity for the
feelings of that region if after the 9TH day
of March, 1889, he should cease to be their
President. And yet that is the event which
is pretty certain to happen.-New York
Sun DEM.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-06-29
THE LADIES.
A Budget of Breezy Gossip Re.
Iating Exclusively to the
Fair Sex.
Accompanied by Some Notes on the
Ever Changing Styles In Femi.
nine Attire.
Fancy Fads.
SHOPPING RAGS,

SHOPPING BAGS.
As the useful and serviceable leather
shopping bag is now decidedly "out," our
lady readers will be glad of an opportunity
to use the shabby ones which are too good
to throw away, and look too badly to carry.
Our illustration shows how one may utilize
discarded bag tops-in fact, fasten the new
bag on the outside of the old one. The
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-06-29

VERY few foreigners of distinction are
honored with equally as warm a reception
on visiting America as has been extended
the editor of United Ireland.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-06-29

CONSUME little time in regret. The
best repentance is reformation. What
tears of contrition are powerless to
effect, an altered life easily accom-
n1iahas
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-06-29

THE confidence a child has in what is
said by its parents is we'll illustrated in the
following: little boy, disputing with his
sister. argued his point in this way: at is
true, for ma SAYS so; and IL ma says so, 1t
Is SO, even IL il isn't So"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-06-29

CENsuRE is most effectual when
mixed with praise; so when fault is
discovered, it is well to look up aviftue
to go in company with it.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-06-29

The Hebrew population of Jerusalem
is increasing. 1t is now 1880, the
largest number since Titus destroyed
the sacred city, A. ID. 20.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-06-29

AT the Lending Library: Young lady.
Please give me the three Musketeers."
Shopman-ve sorry; they are not in at
present. Young lady-What pity
Couldn't you let me have at least one?-
Mnndebnrner Zciiunn.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-06-29

COULD a man make shirt for S.O6?'
ASKS a writer in Harpers. Perhaps not;
but he could make one worth less than SOC.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-06-29

Subject OF lesson for July 10, "The Fligh
into Egypt" Matt 2: 1923
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-11-04
THE DUTY ON SALT.

A Monopoly Which Deserves the Atten-
tion OF Revenue BefOrmers.
Following what seems to be some
what of a craze rs well as a legitimate
movement, the salt producers of the
country are forming a ''trust. This
may not result in increasing the price
to the consumer, but the producers ev-
identity expect and hope that it will.
Such an attitude on their part is very
curious way of repaying the special
favor already extended to them by the
laws of the land. The salt manufact-
urers are protected by Il duty of about
one hundred per cent. on the imported
product This, of course, operates to
raise the price of the home article to
that extent. 1t is very doubtful if,
under any circumstances, such tax
would be productive of the greatest
good to the greatest number The
salt manufacturers are exceeding few,
and their product is an article of cSm-
mon necessity in every household.
Certainly it is very oppressive to the
dairymen who are compelled to pay
an unnecessarily high price for that
which they must use in large guam
titles; whereas the meat and fish-pack-
ers are granted a rebate on the foreign
salt they use. equivalent to the amount
of duty paid. Now, we protect the
salt industry by a tariff, in order, by
stimulating production, to develop and
expand it. And here are the salt pro-
ducers forming a combination to limit
and contract the output. Not satisfied
with the artificial profit they are now
making, they desire to raise the price
by uniting in monopoly. In any
scheme of tariff reform it would seem
to be DIES rable to add salt, which is es-
sentially raw material, to the free
list. Certainly if the producers try to
lift the marx t price they are only in
viting the WI hdrawal of the excep-
tional favors ala ady extended to them.
-Pr0Ujdence r. = Journal
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-11-04
DUEL BETWEEN PLANTS.
The War Waged by "A sumach and CHM


The War Waged by a sumach and a Climb
ing Bitter-Sweet.
Some time ago my pupils We're much
interested IN finding what they map
propriately termed hand-tO-hand con-
fict between a sumach (IbuS ty1Hiq9G)
and a climbing bitter-sweet (CeEGStrus
s4q11de7lS). Judging from the appear
ance when found, the sumach was
about two inches in diameter when
the bitter sweet first wound its coils
about it. As the growth of each pro-
ceeded, these coils became tighter and
tighter, cutting into and through the
bark and growing layer of the sumach
which seemed to be threatened with
strangulation. II was not, however,
to be so easily vanquished. It resO-
lutely kept up its manufacture of new
material, which, owing to the tight en-
brace of the vine, had to be distri buted
along spiral line Immediately above
the coils. just below the coils the
supply appeared TO be cut off, as the
trunk was then shriveled and in most
places dead. Although rendered I'M
slightly, the tree presented the curious
feature of having two spirals, one of
iINlii2s 2tDWtIl2s luc OiIitI uetU ana Ge-
caving material wound about its heal
wood, so that the whole resembled a
huge auger. To avenge this deformity
the sumach proceeded to push its
new growth out above and over the
coils of the vine until at one place it
had completely eneompassed it. The
vine, in turn, was now so tightly
squeezed as to be cut off from commu-
nication with the ground, and below
this point but little life remained.
Victory now seemed within the
grasp of the sumach. The vine, how
ever, in its last extremity now united
itself with the growing layer of the
sumach, and thus literally drew from
the cause of the enemy whatever sup
plies were needed to keep its top bright
and thrifty. At this stage the conflict
was cut short by the age of the collect
or. and the com batants, locked in each
others arms, were laid away among
,he curiosities of q museum. -Jouraal
II EducafioH
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-11-04

his arms and kissed her again and
again.
"Oh, Irene. my darling, say you
love me-
Love youP Why, Philip, You know
I love you-that 1 never knew what it
was to love until met you"
care you sure you never loved any
other man, Irene?"
"Sure, Philip? How strangely you
talk. OF course am sure"
After they had finished breakfast
Philip, instead of going at once to his
Office, as was usually his custom, lin
gered by the window, gazing out in an
distracted manner.
Irene had always been in the habit
of giving him her letters to mail, and
this morning she had not mentioned
having any.
As Philip stood looking out of the win
dow, he was thinking of this. At last,
taking up his hat, he said, earelessly:
ANY letters to mail this morning,
IreneP'
To his surprise Irene jumped to her
feet, exclaiming: Charles letter!
How could be so fOrgetful? Wait
Just a minute, Phil. And she hurried
out of the room.
Charles letter Philip could not
believe his ears. Evidently there was
a mistake somewhere.
Presently Irene returned with let
ter in her hand which she was folding
ready for the envelope.
81 am so glad you mentioned letters,
Philip, for yesterday morning 1 wrote
to my old school chum, Charlotte
Tracy, or Charlie" as we always
called her, and forgot to give it to
you"
How easily it was all explained.
Philip had made himself miserable for
nothing. How happy he was to prove
it all a mistake. Some time he would
tell his wife all about it, but not now.
-Jeffe F.. Hanqtord, IN Commercial
Traveller
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-11-04
CHIEF OF STRANGERS.

a HideOus Old Thug Tries His Terrible
Arts a Tourist.
Many of the great criminals whom I
have seen bore in their faces a terrible
warning of what they were; but with the
Thugs of Jahapur it is not so. These hui
man vampires who now gather round me,
says a correspondent Of the Philadelphia
Press, every one Of whom has taken more
lives than any public executioner in
quiet, slOuching, meager old men, who
might be a gang of beggars, a group of
harmless village folk, party of super
animated native workmen, or any thing
on earth but what they really are.
"That's the chief" whispers my guide,
pointing to a small, lean, gray-beaTd, with
a white tur ban, who is sitting before the
nearest hut, rocking q child on his knee,
and stroking its thin, little, brown face
with the hand that has shed the blood Of
his fellow men like water.
"Ask him." rejOin [, chow many muir
ders he has committed"
A momentary CLEAN of cunning wrinkles
in his sunAen eyes. The old tiger is evil
IDENTIFY suspicious, and stands on his
guard.
''I can not tell he answers, with an in
difference which, under such circum-
stances, has in it something sCribably
yond a hundred"
''Now, before we gO,' says to our con-
ductOr, Il mean TO see for myself how the
strangling was done. Oblige me by telling
this man to put his moose around my
wrist, for don't care to trust him with
my throat"
The savage eagerness with which the
withered old skeleton obeys the call-as if
filed with fresh life by even the make be-
heve show of MURDERS fearful to see.
Knotting a small coin into the corner of
his handkerchief to give him
sure hold, he slips the moose
round my arm and then, bringing his
knuckles together with a sudden twist,
gives my wrist a squeeze and almost makes
she bone crack.
The awful change that passes over his
face at this moment battles all de-
scriptiOn. His dull, fimsy eyes seem to
blaze with hell-fre, his sharp, white teet b
are laid bare in a wolfish grin, his shriv-
eled, corpse-like features culver with a
ferocious Joy so fiendish that an actual
demon starting up before me could scarce
iy be more appalling. The thought of that
face bending over some helpless man in
the gloomy depths of the forest, just as
the fatal moose frightened, is altogether too
much for my nerves, aud it is with long
breath Of relief that / find myself outside
the fatal inclosure once more
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-11-04
SOME STRANGE CONFESSIONS.
Several Good Stories Which Convey Very
Needfu1 Morals.

Several Good Stories Which Convey Very
Eeedfu1 Morals.
The Rochester On. " Union reports
having this dialogue with an eminent
physician
"Can you cure a cold for me3''
81 dare say; where is it?''
ADO you treat yourself for colds?"
''Phat depends on how bad theY are. 1
had one last week and fixed myself up
dose, but didn't dare take it. I kept it
over night and gave it to 'deadhead' pa
tent the next dayi"
''Then you don't dare take your own
medicine?''
''No! / don't dare, and have no family
physician"
A gentleman, a short time ago, consulted
his physician about a severe rheumatic at
tack. As he was leaving, the doctor sand:
SHOULD my prescription afford any relief,
let me know it, as 1 am suffering from an
affection similar to yours, and for the last
twenty years have tried III vain to cure itP'
The best of physicians now have the
franlzness to admit that the schools have
not yet mastered all there IS to know about
the causes of disease, and the best methods
of cure. There has been a great advance,
no doubt, in medical science, in the last fifty
years. Doctors themselves do not take
their own physic, even though they may sat
urate the systems of their patients with
poisonous drugs, nor do they bleed, blister
and torture, as formerly.
Byron died, it is claimed, because OF over
bleeding by his physicians. w Washington
met the same fatel
Scientific investigation shows that most
ailments proceed from arrangement Of pri-
mary organs, of which the kidneys are the
most important. Every drop of blood cours-
ing through the system passes through
these organs, and If they are deran ged, the
blood speedily becomes impure, and carries
the seeds Of disease to every part of the
BODY. If we keep these organs regulated
by the use of a simple vegetable COM
pound like Warmers safe cure, which
Prof. baltimore, New York State board
of health analyst, of the Rochester
University, says: II find entirely free
from mercury and all poisonous and
deleteriOus substances''-therei is little dan
ger of bright's disease, apOpleXy, rheuma-
tisIn, or any of the common ailments, nearly
all of which originate in or are made fatal
by diseased Though unexpectedly kidneys.
This great remedy has the reputation, which
seems well founded, of curing more diseases
than any one other remedy ever known. 1t
restored the son of the Danish vice-Consul
Schmidt of 90 Wall street, New York, from
Bright'S disease, and General Chris Hansen,
Of Drexel, Morgan & Co.. Bankers OF New
York, who knew of the case, pronounced it
a wonderful remedy.
As appropriate to the doctors who give to
their patients what they will not take them
selves, we quote this story:
'SOh, Mr.. Smith, help me OUT exclaimed
young lady at a church fair. Give sold a
tidy for SIS that only cost 15c. What per
centage is the profit?''
percentage, madame exclaimed the
lawyer with merriment. ''Fhat transaction
Is beyond percentag e-itis simply larcenyP'
The professional man who takes ones
money when he can do one no equivalent
service will understand the moral.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-11-04

A sailor belonging to a Chinese vessel
lying at Spithe5d, England died recently,
and was buried in the cemetery there.
After the coffin had been lowered, four
sailors, who occupied a position at the
foot of the grave, produced in succession
a tin pail, parcel Of matches, number
Of faggots and various pieces of brown
paper. A fire having been kindled, out Of
the pail were brought forth several plates,
which were disposed round the fire, a
lump of pork, various pieces Of meat, a
few eggs and a quantity of salt and sand.
These, having been divided into Aves,
were cooked and placed on the plates, and
on the contamination Of the sacrifice they
were all gathered together and returned
to the pail. A sailor now partly filed in
the grave, after which the captain Of the
ship and couple Of subordinate officers
came forward and Frustrated themselves
three times, uttering prayer at each genu-
fexion. This completed the ceremony.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-11-04
Fires and Ealing Stars.

The frequency of the fires in autumn
as compared with the other seasons of
the year is q matter of familiar OBJ
servat;on. NJ. Jenger. French as
tronomer. who has given great deal
of attention TO the subject, seeks to es-
tablish connection between these au-
tumnal fires and the falling stars so
numerous at the same period Of the
year in a paper read at the last meet
ing of the Academy of Science. He
has been collecting statistics of these
occurrences for several years past, and
he Processes TO have discovered that a
line drawn on the map joining the
points where the different confagra-
tons broke out in any given year forms
a more or less regular eclipse repre-
senting what he calls the "cone of dis
persion" of the meteoric shower 1t is
not often that there is any suspicion of
malicious origin in the case of these
fires; but prosecutions are occasionally
instituted, and NJ. Jenger thinks it ex-
tremely probable that where the case
rested on circumstantial evidence, in
nocenU persons have now and again
been wron gfully convicted. From this
point of view in particular, he thinks
his theory we'll worthy of the attention
of scientific men.-St. James GaEstte.